Rod was born in 1965 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  At the age of five, Rod’s grandmother, a painter, encouraged his parents to send him to private art lessons with a well-known Buck’s Country impressionist.  The consummate student of art, Rod continually searches for his own truth.  Traveling abroad has exposed him to a variety of art styles, mediums and messages. By studying past and present masters, Rod explores sculpture as a metaphor of the present world.  Under the guidance and mentoring of Floyd T. DeWitt, Rod strives to see beyond the literal and narrative to create work that is contemplative and metaphorical yet based on traditional foundations.  His goal is to see the abstract forms in nature and express this in sculpture by marrying the components of discipline and creativity to express a concept rather that an image.

The National Sculpture Society awarded Rod in 2003 with the Beverly Hoyt Memorial award and in 2005 the Polich Foundry Award.  He was also featured at the national Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions Show in 2005.  For twenty years, Rod has traveled all over the world as a guiding fisherman for everything from blue marlin to brook trout.  He has also written magazine articles for leading sporting publications and is currently working on his first novel.

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